Pool-table-pocket iron.



.c. W ENDT POOL TABLE POCKET'IRON. .APPLICATION FILED MAI. ll.l9l8'.

PatentedSept. 3,1918.- l

' 2 SHEETS-SHEET I C. A. WEHDT.

POOL TABLE POCKET mom. ,APPLICATION LED MAR. H. I918.

1,277,673. PatentedSept. 3,1918.

- 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2.' I C90 i a 7 v UQIIFRE v INVENT R ATTORNEY terrors;

CHARLES A. WENDT, F MILW'AUKEE, WISCONSIN;

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES A. Waiver,-

' a citizen of the United States, and resident ofMilwaukee, in the county of ll lilwaukee and State of \Visconsin, have invented certam new anduseful Improvements In Pool- Table-Pocket Irons; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear and exact description thereof. y, This invention relates'to improvements in game apparatus and more particularly to pool and billiard tables.

It is the object of my invention to provide irons of a table of this character with the table rails in such manner that the irons maybe removed and replaced from time to time without.disturbing the securement of the rails to. the table, and it 'is more particularly my object to provide for detacha bly securing the angle irons in such manner *that the top surfaces of thcmeeting end portions of the rails a re not. disturbed in atachment or detachment of the irons.

An additional object is to provide a pocket iron of improved shape which will deflect the pool balls downwardly into the pocket oi. which it forms" a part and thus obviate the possibility of the balls being projected over the pocketv and oil the table.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certain peculiarities of construction, combination and arrangement of parts which will be hereinafter more particularly described and claimed and shown in the drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 represents a plan view of one corher of a pool table showing my invention as applied to a corner pocket.

Fig. 2 is a similar view illustrating the relation of the invention to a side pocket.

Fig. 3 is an elevational View of a portion of a table with my invention associated therewith, and

Figs. 4 and 5 are vertical transverse sec tional views taken on the planes of the lines 4-4 and 5-5 of Fig. 2"

In both forms of my invention similar rel orence characters indicate like parts, the numeral 1 being used to denote the usual slate bed or playing surtace of a pool table, said surface being substantially rectangular and provided with retaining members to hold the usual balls thereon.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 11, 1918.

These retaining 5 POOLTABLE-POCKET men.

Patented Sept. 3, 1918. 'SerialNo.221,716. V

men'rb'ers comprise sills 2 and rails 3 the former belng secured to the edges of the playing surface, while the latter are disposed on the top of said sills.

At. predetermined points the table is provided with av plurality of pockets l, such pockets each being formed by cutting an arcuate recess 5 in the playing surface and spacing the Hills and rails adjacent such re-,

cess apart. v I A pocket iron (5 is customarily employed to bridge the gap between the rails and to I form a stop against which the balls directed an arrangementv tor connectlng the pocketwith the usual leather each end thereof, they being formed integrally with its bottom surface. Said lugs are readily removably disposed in longitudinally extending seats 8 formed in the sills 2 immediately beneath the rails 33. In other words the bottom of the rails form the tops of the recesses or seats 8, the inner ends of which open through the inner adjacent ends of said sills. The outer sides of the seats are also openthrough the outer surt'aceot the sills whereby to allow the lugs to be readily inserted thereinto or removed therefrom. In view of this construction it will be seen that it is absolutely unnecessary to remove the The several irons are held in position by bolts 9 that extend upwardly through the sills 2 and openings in'the lugs 7 as clearly shown in Fig. 5.

The inner surface of each pocket iron is inclined downwardly and outwardly at a sharp angle as at 10 in Fig. 4, and such surface is so disposed with respect to the play- :ing surface 1 that a ball as it is projected into the pocket 4 will strike'mhhyay the inclined surface 10. In the present construction the balls are liable to strike the intersection of the inner and top surface of the iron and be deflected over the top of the latter and consequently off the table. My

improved iron will prevent such by directing the balls downwardly.

1. A game table of the cla$ described including a playing surface, a pair of retainingmembers disposed at the edge of the playing surface and having their opposite ends spaced apart to receive a pocket therebetween, each of said-members having a longitudinally extending seat opening through of the lugs being positioned in each of said seats by disposing the same through the outer open sides thereof, and means engaging the lugs to retain the same in the seats.

2. A ganie table of the class described ineluding applaxiugslirface, a pair of sills disposed at the edge of the playing surface and having their opposite ends spaced apart to receive a pocket therebetween, a rail disposed on each of said sills, the adjacent ends of said rails being spaced apart, each of said sills having a longitudinally extending seat opening through the end thereof, the top of said seats being formed by the bottom of said rails, the outer side of said seats being also open through the outer surface of the sills, a pocket iron bridging the'space between the adjacent ends of the rails and having its opposite ends abutting the same, a lug projecting from each end of the pocket iron, 'one of thelugs being removably disposed in each of said seats, and means engaging the lugs to retain .the same in said seats.

In testimony that I claim the foregoingI have hereunto set-my hand at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee, and State of Wisconsin.

CHARLES A. WENDT. 

